The Marble Game Mancala

There s evidence that the game was played thousands of years ago in ancient sumeria modern day iraq in ancient sudan on.

The marble game mancala.

Historians believe that mancala may have originated with the dawn of civilization as a record keeping technique a harvesting ritual or a divination tool. Your objective is to capture all or some set of the opponent s gems. Your goal is to get more gems into your mancala the cup on the right than the computer can get into its mancala on the left. The mancala board and some marbles.

If you don t know the rules there s a really brief tutorial you can watch that. 2 to move you click on one of the cups in your row. Ropoda mancala board game set with folding rubber wood board 48 5 multi color glass stones stone storage bag marble game for daily life party festival portable for kids and adults 4 7 out of 5 stars 243. I only knew this game by the name marble game until i was an adult and learned the correct name was mancala.

Your objective is to capture all or some set of the opponent s gems. Mancala online is a cool free online version of the fun board game for 2 players. The board dimensions are 6 wide and 18 long a game the kids and adults will love. Versions of the game date back to the 7th century and evidence suggests the game existed in ancient egypt.

Our childhood mancala game board ended up at my house so my girls learned to play the marble game with the set their grandparents had made. By the time it went through 2 generations it was time for a new game board and marble bag. Each slot is filled with four stones at the beginning of the game and they move always in the same direction distributing one stone on each slot. 1 you can only move gems on your side which is the bottom row.

The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent s pieces. This game is all about owning more stones than your opponent to win the game. To play the ancient and fun game of mancala you only need two very simple things. Mancala board game versions of this game have been played for hundreds of years this 2 player turn based strategy game is played with small glass gems.

You get to start then the computer takes its turn and so on. The spruce catherine song mancala s primitive history. The board is 17 5 inches in length and 5 5 inches in width consisting of twelve small holes along the longer sides called the non mancala cups and two large elongated holes on each short end called the mancala cups.